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Although Google Wave is still available to use, Google announced back in August, that they will be removing the web application.
According to Urs Holzle, Senior Vice President of Operations at Google Fellow, he said that the central parts of Google Wave codes "are already available as open source, so customers and partners can continue the innovation we began."
Many of the innovations that have driven Waves are still available such as the drag-and-drop tool and the character-by-character live typing.
Holzle, when asked about the release of Wave said, "Developers in the audience stood and cheered, some even waved their laptops. We were equally jazzed about Google Wave internally."
Holzle refers to Google Wave as "powerful technology," however, for non- web developers, they weren't able to figure its usefulness out.
According to Georgina Swan from PCWorld she asked, "Was it a social network or a collaboration tool on steroids?" She further commented, "Nobody could quite agree, and it's one reason for the demise of Google Wave."
Swan, in her article, quoted Jonathan Yarmis who is a senior research fellow with analyst Ovum as saying, "Wave's strength - its lack of definition- was also its greatest weakness because you could do any of the things incorporated into Wave in other, more accessible, fashions."
Yarmis is further quoted as saying, "The ongoing growth of things like Facebook and Twitter probably killed Wave, as conversations that might have taken place there instead migrated to either a social platform -Facebook- or a more conversational tool - Twitter. Even Google Buzz played a role in Wave's death as the two were somewhat similarly targeted but Buzz, being more Twitter-like, was easier to understand and embrace."
Another commenter on the banishing of Google Wave is Christina Warren from Mashable. She said, "From the very beginning, Google seemed unsure of what Wave was and clueless about how to present it to the public. For instance, it took a third party to create a video explaining Google Wave for many people to actually understand the central points and aims of the service."
Holzle also stated that Google Wave "has not seen the user adoption we would have liked. In addition, we will work on tools so that users can easily 'liberate' their content from Wave." Google will continue maintaining Wave until the end of the year, and will also extend the technology to other Google projects.
